The Sub Male Lead is Burning with Jealousy - Chapter 11 Part 11 - Memory

His mind sank into ash-gray darkness, and in the end, it was swallowed by a dim light. The fact that it was not dazzlingly bright made him think that this was indeed inside a dream.

“…If you are summoned before His Majesty, you must not dare open your mouth or raise your head before you are given permission. Do you understand?”

He was standing in front of the corridor of a building with thick gray castle walls. At his superior’s words that he had to stand before the king, he made a displeased face. He was a mage, but he was not very skilled, and there was no reason for the king himself to call him in.

“His Majesty called for me? What is the matter?”

“You will know that once you go.”

At the royal mage’s words, he wanted to sigh. He knew that his superior did not like him. He had only made a contract with the royal family to receive a salary from the country; he did not respect his superior either.

‘It must be something useless. I hope it’s not dangerous….’

The name of the man who swallowed his sigh and followed his superior was Emil. Emilio was dumbfounded by the fact that even inside a dream, he could not escape that name.

As if it was such a great name.

He followed Emil with the feeling of watching someone else’s dream. Following the court mage, Emil stood before the king, and as he had been instructed, he knelt and lowered his head.

The king was a plump fellow with a pig-like face and small eyes. Emilio, who knew the faces of many kings, wondered if there had ever been such a king on the continent.

‘For a man with such a small frame, he sure gained weight in a planned-out way.’

“The reason I called you is…”

The speech the king went on with was truly unbelievable. Not far from the kingdom, there was a dragon’s lair, and there was a rumour that the dragon had fallen deeply for a human woman.

So he was telling Emil to enter the dragon’s lair and persuade the woman. He wanted her to come down to this kingdom with the dragon and become a noble. If he could make the dragon swear loyalty to him, he said he would make the dragon a grand duke and the dragon’s lover a grand duchess.

‘What is this pig saying?’

It was so absurd that he tried to say something, but the king’s eyes were shining with greed. Emil knew those kinds of eyes. They were the eyes of someone drunk on his own greed and delusions, someone who would not listen to anyone.

“If that happens, I can put the dragon at the front and conquer other countries one by one… and beyond that, it may even be possible for me to become emperor!”

This was a world where dragons massacred cities or villages simply because something had offended them. It had been eight years since news came that a kingdom several lands away had been destroyed by a dragon’s invasion.

‘He’s insane.’

Emil looked at his superior as if asking for help, but the man was avoiding his eyes.

‘Damn it!’

He sensed his own death and trembled. When he came out after having an audience with the king, the commander of the knights was waiting for him. He warned Emil that if he died in the dragon’s lair, there was nothing to be done, but if he ran away, all of his family members would be executed.

For that purpose, the royal mage even cast tracking magic on him. Since Emil could not erase that mark with his own magic, he had no choice but to sneak all the way into the dragon’s lair.

After seeing this much, Emilio felt strange. Just why was he having this kind of dream?

‘A world where dragons are rampant. Just how many hundreds of years ago is this continent?’

Judging from the situation, it seemed that the empire did not yet exist in this world. The empire had been established only after dragons had been subjugated to some extent. If the empire had been founded before that, it would have been attacked by dragons, and an enormous number of humans would have been massacred.

Since Emil had left for the mountain range where the dragon’s lair was said to be, Emilio’s mind followed after him. In order to increase his chances of survival, Emil gathered rumors about the dragon’s lover.

At a village at the foot of the mountain, he barely managed to find out her name.

It was said to be Radiel.

***

Since dawn had broken, everyone was moving busily for the Harvest Festival parade.

The form of the parade was simple. It would begin in front of the imperial family after receiving the emperor’s blessing, then one side would move with the Knight of Autumn at the front, and the other side with the Maiden of Abundance at the front.

The parade, which moved in a form that circled the capital once, would meet in front of the temple. The Knight of Autumn would escort the Maiden of Abundance into the temple, and once the High Priest received their offerings, the Harvest Festival would be considered to have been successfully carried out.

Behind the carriages carrying the Knight of Autumn and the Maiden of Abundance, carriages decorated by the lords of each region would follow. These carriages were meant to be decorated with the specialties of their lands.

There were pumpkins, wheat, barley, corn, all kinds of fruits and cloth, as well as crafted goods such as bowls and swords. In the center of each carriage, the candidates recommended by the corresponding lord wore clothes decorated with the specialties of that territory and waved to the people.

The Maiden of Abundance and the Knight of Autumn were dressed in a way that suited the theme of autumn, but the other candidates wore clothes meant to suit the parade, so there were a few ridiculous-looking ones as well.

In any case, people had already been gathering for hours in order to watch it. The capital’s guards were checking the roads and setting up safety lines to prevent any accidents.

In the imperial palace, Anais was also dressing up to attend the Harvest Festival.

Once the emperor sent off the parade, it was customary for the emperor, empress, and countless nobles to arrive at the temple first through the road that led along the central avenue and wait for the parade to come.

When the High Priest received the offering from the Maiden of Abundance, they would be able to watch it from the highest seats.

As the daughter of the Marquis of Ruol, she had watched the Harvest Festival several times, but she had never watched it from the highest seats, mixed among the nobles.

So she was looking forward to it a little.